Word: roses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ROSE Wheeling...
...mounting importance of Joe Strecker as a Reddish bug under the national microscope was further emphasized when, to defend him before the Supreme Court, up rose Lawyer Whitney North Seymour of the eminent Manhattan firm of Simpson, Thacher & Bartlett. Mr. Seymour, a Republican libertarian, won freedom in 1937 for Red Angelo Herndon from Georgia's 71-year-old insurrection law. For Joe Strecker he argued that his case paralleled Herndon's, and that in view of the Communist Party's disclaimers, its members constitute no immediate menace such as the 1918-20 deportation law had in mind...
...frail body, however, could stand no further onslaught, and when he complained of pain in his bladder, his physicians realized that his kidneys were weakened and knew that the end was near. Dr. Milani rose from his own sickbed, administered adrenalin. But it was no use. In a short time the Pope's heart gave...
...musicians. The first oboe closed the music on his stand, blew out his candle, tiptoed from the stage. The second horn followed. One by one, other musicians got up and went out. Soon there were only two violinists left. Together they played the symphony's last note, then rose, doused their candles and departed. Silently the powder-haired Kapellmeister turned, bowed, blew out his candle, plunged the room into total darkness...
There were only two ways, Mr. Ecker admitted, that Metropolitan could stop its growth-not writing any more policies, which would be "utterly destructive to the business," or not adding to its surplus, which would be "dangerous" if mortality rates suddenly rose in an epidemic...